If you’re a reader of this blog, then you know that I have often said that two things will destroy our world — the failure of Alexandrian leadership (leadership from the front) and the lack of education, with the second creating the first.
We are living in a time when education has failed badly, when students and teachers have been straitjacketed by the far right and the far left so that many lack any real knowledge and concomitant respect for language, history and science. As a result, the public, or at least the minority that controls many elections in this country, has given power to those who do not best serve the people but those who best serve their baser instincts, who reflect their own narcissism.
This chicken has come home to roost once again in the Jan. 6 hearings into the insurrection at The Capitol that are now being televised, with coverage resuming 10 a.m. EDT Wednesday, June 15.
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